On Monday, following the release of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) notification by the union home ministry, Kangana Ranaut expressed her support for the move. Taking to Instagram Stories, she shared images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah alongside the caption ‘CAA’ adorned with Indian flag emojis, indicating her backing for the CAA notification.
Kangana Ranaut shared an archival video from 2014 featuring PM Modi discussing the rationale behind CAA, emphasizing the importance of comprehending its principles before forming judgments or emotions about it.
This isn’t the first instance of Kangana Ranaut voicing her views on the CAA. In 2019, she criticized Bollywood figures for what she perceived as their silence on CAA protests, labeling them ‘cowards’. In an interview with The Times of India, she expressed her disappointment, stating,
“The actors should be ashamed of themselves. I have no illusions about the fact that Bollywood is full of cowards, who are full of themselves. All they do is just look into the mirror 20 times a day and when they’re asked they say we have electricity and we have access to everything, we are privileged, why should we be bothered about the country?”
Asked if she thinks actors are living in fear of repercussions for voicing their thoughts, Kangana had said,
“No, they live under the fear of everything. They are the most scared human beings I’ve ever seen. They are sissies. They are cowards. They’re spineless people. That’s why they bully outsiders, they bully girls because they are cowards. And I feel there is really no hope for them. We need to stop projecting them as icons, we need to stop projecting them as our torchbearers, we need to see them for who they are.”
The Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, implemented by the Centre, offers a pathway to citizenship for undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. This recent notification marks the commencement of granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from these nations, four years after the law was passed by Parliament.